State Compensatory Education

The purpose of the State Compensatory Education (SCE) program is to supplement the regular – or basic – education program with compensatory, intensive, and/or accelerated instruction. The program requires Texas public school districts and charter schools to offer additional accelerated instruction to each student who meets one or more statutory or locally-defined eligibility criteria in order to reduce any disparity in performance on assessment instruments administered under Subchapter B, Chapter 39 TEC, or disparity in the rates of high school completion between students at risk of dropping out of school and all other LEA students.

Statutes and correspondence related to the SCE program are listed below.

Campus and District Improvement Plans

School districts and charter schools with an annual state compensatory allotment of $500,000 or greater must submit district and campus improvement plans to TEA on or before the date that falls 150 days after the final PEIMS midyear resubmission date.

Expenditures of state compensatory education funds must: 1) support the intent and purpose of the program, 2) be allowable under statute and guidance, and 3) be directly related to specific interventions identified in the appropriate district and campus improvement plans.

House Bill 5, 83rd Texas Legislature

Under
House Bill 5 passed in 2013, the number of State of Texas Assessments
of Academic Readiness (STAAR®) end-of-course exams that high school
students are required to pass in order to graduate was reduced to five.
Students who failed an assessment that is no longer required should have
been removed from at risk status by the end of school year 2013-2014.
Prior to removing any student from services, the district should
determine whether that student meets any other criteria under Texas Education Code §29.081(d) or any local eligibility criteria adopted by the board of trustees in accordance with Texas Education Code §29.081(g).